Sticky Floor Versus Glass Ceiling

And so when a speaker on gender in the workplace talked about women and leadership and explored the underlying reason for the disproportionate number of women in high leadership positions as a combination of both glass ceiling and a sticky floor it resonated.

Sticky floor versus glass ceiling. But the sticky floor theory doesn t have. Catherine berheide was subsequently interviewed in 1993 by laabs where she stated most women should be so lucky to have the glass ceiling as their problem. We are about to experience perhaps the most profound vacuum. Barriers to career advancement.

None of the examples utilized in the book resonated with me. Eileen barrett md mph 2. To answer the question of whether there is a glass ceiling or a sticky floor i e. Sticky floor and glass ceiling.

The real reason women don t make it. Whether wage gaps are higher at the upper or lower ends of the wage distribution this paper examines. But i have seen something different. For women in leadership roles in australia the constant battle to unglue our feet from that sticky floor of workplace inequality can get incredibly tiring.

Susan hingle md 1. Usually women blame the old boys club or the glass ceiling for the dearth of women at the top she says. The sticky floor metaphor strives the show people that there are only a few white educated women who can even make it to a higher position to hit the top glass ceiling. Glass ceiling or sticky floor.

The sticky floor concept is as the name describes implying there is less of a glass ceiling than one may have thought previously but rather as a woman that i am somehow unknowingly sabotaging my own efforts to achieve that senior level position. Many women are mired in. The connotation of the new metaphor the sticky floor is that majority of women are stuck at the bottom. The term sticky floor is used to describe a discriminatory employment pattern that keeps a certain group of people at the bottom of the job scale.

The term sticky floor was coined in 1992 by catherine berheide in a report for the centre for women in government. Author affiliations article information. We hold commissions think tanks inquiries and productivity studies we talk a lot of talk and argue bitterly about the issues we face and yet the fact is this. The infamous glass ceiling.

The glass ceiling and sticky floor for women in medicine begin early. 1 department of medicine southern illinois university school of medicine springfield. Most of the workers who experience the sticky floor are pink collar workers such as secretaries nurses or waitresses.